OT: Need XP Pro Help badly!

[Rabbit16v@attbi.com (Rabbit16v)]

ATI since the early eighties?  What, did you run them in your Commodore?

Dave

> I agree I have 3 machines here with XP and I only use ATI since ealy 80's
> and I guess I got used to handling their poor delivery system for windows
> for drivers, make sure your motherboard has latest bios update then
drivers
> for everythign else, do not install CDROm drivers, but set card to be VGA
> 16Bit card then install drivers from web site should solve your problem,
it
> has for all my various ATI cards I have here including my Radeon 7500, and
> ATI Radeon Wonder.
>
> ATS - Patrick Bureau - txrocco@sbcglobal.net
>
>
> =>-----Original Message-----
> =>From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
> =>[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Joe Doty
> =>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:20 PM
> =>To: Euroroc II; Jeff Toomasson; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> =>Subject: RE: OT: Need XP Pro Help badly!
> =>
> =>
> =>Negative.  We use XP Pro on every workstation here at my office, and I
> =>personally use it for development.  It is rock solid.
> =>
> =>The problem lies with ATI's poor driver support.  I have an ATI Radeon
> =>8500, it took me a while to get the problems with that ironed out.  I
> =>would recommend going to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and making
> =>sure all of your other hardware's drivers are updated (mainly chipset).
> =>I would also flash the BIOS with the latest version.  Lastly, make sure
> =>you get the most recent driver for the card from ATI's website.
> =>
> =>Joe Doty
> =>IT/Development
> =>joe@lcnetwork.com
> =>
> =>-----Original Message-----
> =>From: Euroroc II [mailto:flaatr@yahoo.com]
> =>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:09 AM
> =>To: Jeff Toomasson; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> =>Subject: Re: OT: Need XP Pro Help badly!
> =>
> =>Best fix to XP is to install 2000... XP is Windows for Dummies (well
> =>isn't every version?)
> =>
> =>-my 0.01 (Not even woth 0.02)
> =>-RGK-
> =>
> =>At 03:43 PM 12/22/02 -0800, Jeff Toomasson wrote:
> =>
> =>
> =>I've been trying to load up the drivers for my video card (ATI Radeon
> =>7500) after wiping the HD clean loading up XP Pro and it hangs during
> =>restart while it's supposedly running "system testing" (according to the
> =>ATI install program). The XP Pro logo comes on and the little status
> =>indicator freezes on its third pass.
> =>
> =>I've tried going through ATI's tech support but not really finding
> =>anything there. I haven't tried MSN yet, but that's my next stop
> =>
> =>The card came with the PC when I got it from the guy who bought my M3.
> =>He's actually a tech there and this card could be a beta (could explain
> =>why the device manager cannot ID it.)
> =>
> =>Another kick in the stomach is that he also gave me an AIW 32MB card but
> =>I just noticed that it doesn't have the normal 16-pin interface port
> =>that older cards have so I can't test it with that one...
> =>
> =>I'm running a Sony VAIO 1.3GHz P4 with 256MB RAM so there shouldn't be
> =>any problems there.
> =>
> =>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> =>
> =>Thanks, Jeff
> =>
> =>
> =>
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